Posted on 08/05/2018 3:05:48 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
If Amazon selects Dallas for its second headquarters, it will be adding to the region’s already rich retail DNA.
While Dallas-Fort Worth is known for its business diversity, retailing represents a big slice — maybe one it’s not getting much credit for in the ongoing speculation about where the largest online retailer will decide to put its HQ2.
When analysts size up the 20 cities that Amazon said it would pick from this year, they have looked at where each stands in regards to affordable housing, tech talent, quality of life and other measures Amazon says it’s looking for.
That often leaves Dallas, the fourth largest U.S. metropolis which had the highest population increase of any U.S. metro area last year, an HQ2 underdog.
But those analyses may be undervaluing one unique asset that Dallas has: a history of bringing new ideas in retail to a broader public.
The HQ2 debate hardly notices that while Amazon is a technology company, it’s also a retail company — and one that has room to expand its customer base.
And Dallas is a place where whole new categories of retailing were started and/or refined to appeal to a mass market....
(Excerpt) Read more at dallasnews.com ...
No, DON’T go to Dallas... remember, they assassinate Democrap Pres’s there...
Any corporation putting a HQ in Dallas may just as well put it Detroit or San Francisco. Now Plano or Frisco aren’t so bad.
Newark NJ is certainly more diverse - meaning there are far fewer white people.
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